Table 4.1
Percentage of spousal violence victims whose victimization came to the attention of police, by sex of victim and incident characteristics, Canada, 2009

Table 4.1 Percentage of spousal violence victims whose victimization came to the attention of police, by sex of victim and incident characteristics, Canada, 2009
Table summary
This table displays the results of table 4.1 percentage of spousal violence victims whose victimization came to the attention of police. The information is grouped by incident characteristics (appearing as row headers), female victims and male victims, calculated using percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Incident characteristics	Female victims	Male victims
Incident characteristics	percent
Most serious assault
Threats, threw something	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published
Pushed, shoved, slapped†	14^{Note E: Use with caution}	12^{Note E: Use with caution}
Kicked, bit, hit	32^{Note E: Use with cautionNote *}	12^{Note E: Use with caution}
Beaten, choked, or used gun or knife	60^Note *	42^{Note E: Use with cautionNote *}
Sexually assaulted	53^Note *	Note F: too unreliable to be published
Injured
Not injured	18^Note *	9^{Note E: Use with cautionNote *}
Injured and no medical attention	41^Note *	31^{Note E: Use with caution}
Injured and received medical attention†	70	Note F: too unreliable to be published
Frequency of violence
One incident	15^{Note E: Use with cautionNote *}	Note F: too unreliable to be published
2 to 5 incidents	30^Note *	21^{Note E: Use with cautionNote *}
6 to 10 incidents	43^{Note E: Use with cautionNote *}	Note F: too unreliable to be published
More than 10 incidents†	53	36^{Note E: Use with caution}
Feared for their lives
No	17^Note *	11^{Note E: Use with cautionNote *}
Yes†	58	54^{Note E: Use with caution}
^E use with caution F too unreliable to be published † reference category * significantly different from reference category (p < 0.05) Note: Includes legally married, common-law, same-sex, separated and divorced spouses who experienced spousal violence within the previous 5 years. Data from the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut were collected using a different methodology and are therefore excluded. Source: Statistics Canada, General Social Survey, 2009.

Date modified:: 2015-11-30

Language selection

Search and menus

Search

Table 4.1
Percentage of spousal violence victims whose victimization came to the attention of police, by sex of victim and incident characteristics, Canada, 2009

Table 4.1Percentage of spousal violence victims whose victimization came to the attention of police, by sex of victim and incident characteristics, Canada, 2009

Table 4.1
Percentage of spousal violence victims whose victimization came to the attention of police, by sex of victim and incident characteristics, Canada, 2009